The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-22

had to resort to such desperate meas
ures to gel me-" A peal of uprOar-
Gus laughter greeted this explosion as
the first speaker slapped his cOmpan-
ion on the shoulder exclaiming,
"oh! / see what ails you, you want
the credit of doing all the getting
yourself. 1t does diminish the glory
of the conquering hero truly, to have
some one to aid in the founding of
your kingdom, but really, my friend,
l see no good reason why a woman
has not the same right to advertise
for a life partner that L have to
exercise the same means if / want a
business partner. Now this woman,
whoever she is and whether she is
young or old. i'll looking or good look
ing, and whether "she" is a woman
living in our city, as a nan
in the BAzoo office told me,
| have heard women talk; women
who were held up as examples too,
and the essence of all they would say
in week, would not season bowl
of soup. If / am any judge, the
qualities this writer claim to possess
are the kind that will stand alOpe
when the rOugher elements of this life
assail their pOssessor, and instead of
flying to the shelter of strong arms,
and be ready TO aid in bearing heavy
burdens, and moreover, my own pri-
vate opinion is, that she is better
looking than she allows her readers TO
suppose, and that mOdesty prevents
her claiming her just dues in that
respect, though she is right, and
knows it too, when she asserts her
claim to good and noble qualities.
"Still," persisted Mr.. Dark Age, as |
had mentally styled him, "the idea of
boldly advertising for husband, the
whole proceeding is an ontrage on
polite society," forgetting, evidently,
that his objection was no argument at
all, and his assertion, that it was an
outrage, was wholly without founda
ton or proof. 81 should think if
she is so well qualified to adOrn
a home, she would be sought as such,
anu not left to make her fine points
apparent through the columns of
public newspaper, It all looks badly to
me. "On the contrary" replied my
valiant champion, "that very fact
inspired me with a higher respect for
her, in that she is unwilling to unite
herself with just any sort of man, you
remember she said at first she was not
a woman whom nobody wanted to
marry, but the difficulty lay in pleas
ing herself, / infer that in her limited
circle of acquaintance, she says she Is
poor, they could not include very
great number, she has not met any
Que who reaches her standard of
worth, and | do not wonder that a
woman like her, if the picture is cor
rect, prefers to remain single than be
voked to her inferior, and the livery
fact of her admitting her desire to
marry some good true man, stamps
her with a character fer truth that
few women possess, then, too, i have
drawn a few inspirations from some
things she has said, / cannot fail to
see that something is missing socially,
when woman, such as she
seems to be, is allowed
to 90 unmarried, while unworthy and
incapable ones are filling their places.
One thought in particular has been
suggested to me, that since We have
silent agencies for the purpose of pre-
venting crime and bringing criminals
to justice, why cannot something of
the kind be inaugurated to augment
good, and aid in It's consumatiOn ?
Why not, under the head of some pri.
vate institution, send out through
every community capable men and wO-
men, who will not only look for their
subjects in the highest Stratum of
fashionable life, but penetrate to the
deeper and often richer veins that lie
beneath the glitteriDg surface, and
quietly, without any one suspecting
their true mission, start correspond
ence between those they deem most
fitted. by union, to improve the race,
the nation and the world. | am not
much of a philosopher, but it really
seem to me that if better state of
things could be brought about in the
matrimonial world, we would have
less crime, that correspondingly as
true homes increased, penitentiaries
would decrease" | don't know
what my fault finders reply
to this would have been, for just at
this Instant our locomotive caught
sight of Sedalia, and gave expression
to her delight by long loud scream.
The car doors were thrown open, and
the blue coated master of ceremony,